The Unrepresentable: Art & Sexual Violence
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christopher<br />
benson<br />
One subject that I needed to acknowledge<br />
this year was the representation of Asian-American<br />
women in media and culture. In American popular<br />
culture, Asians and Asian Americans are categorized<br />
and mislabeled and fall into tropes that have been<br />
accepted widely in the media. This all came in<br />
retrospect to an Ethnic Studies class I took last Fall<br />
2016. I had my eyes opened in that class. I became<br />
aware to the origins as to why Asian/Asian-American<br />
peoples have been portrayed so negatively in popular<br />
culture.<br />
<strong>The</strong> images produced have to do with the figural<br />
saturation, sublimation, and social integration that are<br />
expected of Asian-American women. How can one<br />
assimilate into a culture that still recognizes one as<br />
alien without completely abandoning what makes one<br />
special?<br />
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Affect/Effect, Screen Print, 2017, 4 prints measuring 11x14”each<br />
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